Comments on: Is psychiatry a religion?https://mindhacks.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/
Neuroscience and psychology news and views.Sat, 12 Aug 2017 22:22:53 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Gonzohttps://mindhacks.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-384709
Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:58:40 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-384709“Unseen sentient beings”
Unseen by whom?
Were you actually there yourself to ‘prove this’
Google Paul, road to Damascus.
Cognitive Anthropology sounds impressive. Yet also using theories and methods especially from ‘experimental psychology and evolutionary biology”
Science,materialism,sports spectatorship,new opiates of the masses. Aa someone else posted, you could just as easily posit the Self. As an unseen sentient being.
All the best being atheist, it suits your professions, the ‘experts’ (google funny sayings on Experts)
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Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:05:02 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-288867In a time before science, people mistook science for magic (ex. astronomy), today it is the opposite. People mistake magic for science. There are no brain chemical imbalances until people take drugs. No behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease. People make choices to be good or evil.
]]>By: rogercain12https://mindhacks.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-20386
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:46:00 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-20386See time began man as sought understanding and comfort: Religion has, and will continue, to fulfill this role.

However in these days of technology and information it is only natural that Science, Psychology, will begin to provide some of this comfort and understanding.

Interestingly some of the newer religions combine the two quoting basic psychotherapy as the path to enlightenment.

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Mon, 30 May 2011 22:02:58 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-19778Maybe psychology is a religion
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Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:02:47 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-17081Psychiatry is highly presumptive. It contends to be able to scientifically prove “good” and “bad” whenever it defines a mental disorder.

There are chemical differences behind everything. How can you objectively say one thing is just a trait and another a disorder?

Psychiatry often says if something is normal for culture or society it is exempt. What makes society a priori correct? Societies throughout history have sanctioned slavery and genocide and repression. Remember “Drapetomania”. Slaves that wanted to be free were labeled “abnormal”. We didn’t have as much understanding of the material working of the mind back then, but I bet if we still had slaves it would be in the DSM and studies would be showing “differences” between “drapetomania sufferers” and ” ‘normal’ slaves”, because every thought in your head, every feeling is somewhere represented by chemical reactions. Simply choosing to believe in abolition would cause a change somewhere compared to believing one should remain a slave. Looking back if we were forced to say one group was disordered we’d say it was the slaves who didn’t want to be free. This shows just how subjective mental illness is.

I contend that psychiatry should continue, but it should drop this ridiculous presumption to determine how people ought to think and live their lives, and simply categorize mental subtypes and cognitive dimensions. If someone decides that in order to live a better life one of these must change then I’m all for them getting help with that. I’ll go further and say if someone whose functioning “normally” just wants to have an edge such as in love life or work they should be allowed to go for that too.

The driving force here is money, so they tell people who are fine that there is something objectively wrong with them to get them to buy pills.

Even when something is wrong many of these pills are approved in spite of problems like side effects or even when placebo studies show only a very small difference meaning a lot of people are “feeling better” because they expect the pill to work.

]]>By: Anonhttps://mindhacks.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-12855
Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:57:57 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-12855“To a great degree religion attempts to do the same things, just without the scientific method.”

Religion only attempts to get your money.

]]>By: poor-familieshttps://mindhacks.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-11987
Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:46:51 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-11987I totally disagree with Psycholgy as being considered a religion of Science. Human behavior can be explained through this but it does not make psychology a religion.
]]>By: hidingplacebycorriethttps://mindhacks.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-11688
Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:06:01 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-11688Psychiatry is Science. It is definitely not a religion.
]]>By: Bien and Robinsonhttps://mindhacks.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-10028
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:01:45 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-10028To the greatest degree this is absolutely true.

Psychiatry is the study of understanding the functions of a human, and attempting to understanding our motivations and mind.

To a great degree religion attempts to do the same things, just without the scientific method.

So yes, I really think psychiatry is the religion of science. After all it deals so greatly with our choices and how our environment effects us. In essence is really is the POLAR opposite of religion–whilst explaining the same thing.

Very interesting point! Great article.

]]>By: Charleshttps://mindhacks.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-9939
Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:50:04 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/is-psychiatry-a-religion/#comment-9939I do not agree that psychiatry is a religion. I believe that we are pure consciousness and that our body gives us everything we need to combat things like depression and other mental illnesses. Moreover, a religion is a set of beliefs whereas psychiatry is a study of the mind by definition.
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